{"id":2241,"date":"2013-02-28T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:20:55","slug":"penelope-waiting-by-sassan-tabatabai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/28\/penelope-waiting-by-sassan-tabatabai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Penelope Waiting&#8221; by Sassan Tabatabai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment2242\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/penelope-waiting.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2242\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2242\" height=\"251\" width=\"300\" title=\"penelope waiting\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/penelope-waiting-300x251.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/penelope-waiting-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/02\/penelope-waiting.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment2242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Penelope, 1980 | oil on canvas, 40 x 48 in. David Legare<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Core Professor Tabatabai, in his poem <em>Penelope Waiting<\/em>, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They say: &#8216;After twenty years,<br \/>\nwhy does she still wait<br \/>\nfor him? He must have<br \/>\nsuccumbed to Poseidon&#8217;s wrath.<br \/>\nhis bleached bones,<br \/>\non an unknown beach,<br \/>\nhave become the pelican&#8217;s fare.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read this poem in its entirety, please visit the Core Office in search of the Spring 2007 issue of the Core Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core Professor Tabatabai, in his poem Penelope Waiting, writes: They say: &#8216;After twenty years, why does she still wait for him? He must have succumbed to Poseidon&#8217;s wrath. his bleached bones, on an unknown beach, have become the pelican&#8217;s fare.&#8217; To read this poem in its entirety, please visit the Core Office in search of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,244,477,3857,3821,3860,3838,4854],"tags":[44960,5776,3828,44963,44952,197,37385,44959,689,44964,44961,1929],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}